Adam Gopnik warns of our tendency to normalise evil behaviour. What may pass for entertainment in Mafia movies, must be seen through a different lens in real life.
"The risk of crime is not crime alone, but the abyss that opens at our feet when once we have decided that the rules that count for other people don't count for us."
Producer: Sheila Cook Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Proportional Representation and a New Politics
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Collecting Art
Lessons from Disaster Movies
Stay Weird, Britain
Donatello and a New Renaissance
The Art of Getting Lost
AI Agonistes
On Communal Living
Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate
Prince Harry, Love, and Me
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Nature's Pantomime
Turf, Babe and Me
The End of Winter
Chastity Belt Politics
On Being Tall
The End of the Line
Who Can Herd the Cats?
My Ever Growing Pile of Books
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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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